Originally Posted by
AbernethyCameron
For a few years my office was on Princes Street in Edinburgh and had to listen to their noise for much of the day, every day, for a month every Edinburgh festival. They seemed to rotate with some pan pipes guys from South America and as a result I am now a fan of neither!
Yes all day every day would get on anyone's nerves.
However I am a huge fan of Andean music, probably what you are referencing there, from Bolivia and Peru.
Like anything else, with Andean music there's the genuine indigenous stuff, and the schmaltz that's been repackaged for the "general public". The real music, played in the villages of the altiplano, is wonderful, primitive, and alien.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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